I just want everyone to know that I just came across this old posting just now, I'll repost it, from Limewire, I don't know why it worked, but obviously Limewire still has problems, NOT the ISP. Why we would have to delete our preferences is beyond me. This is why Bearshare worked and Limewire didn't. The only thing is I hope it doesn't happen again, where I have to keep relaoading my preferences every time I boot my computer. Good luck to those who had to change all their settings.

For those who are having trouble connection to the Gnutella network using LimeWire, we have a potential fix. You need to delete your WHOLE LimeWire preferences directory. The directory can be found in the following locations:

OS X:
/Users/your_username/Library/Preferences/LimeWire

Windows:
C:/Documents And Settings/your_username/.limewire

Linux:
~/.limewire

Please shutdown any instance of LimeWire you may have running, delete the whole directory, and then restart LimeWire. You should be able to connect.

I'd love to hear how this works for everyone.

Thanks!
Susheel Daswani
Software Engineer
Lime Wire LLC